Oh, lots of people are writing long and thoughtful pieces about Obama and the media's adoration of him, but why go round the barn when the party's inside.
The Fairness Doctrine.
The Fairness Doctrine will be re instituted in an Obama White House. The Fairness Doctrine is seen by the media as the life line that will haul them back in the boat of respectability and give them breathing room to stave off the inevitable, the main stream media's demise.
Today, the media is suffering from a form of merit pay and they don't like it. As people hear more platforms of opinion and news analysis, the New York Times and all their mini-me's, start looking like the leather patches on a professor's elbow, worn and kinda musty and definitely not relevant anymore, which means there is no merit in advertisers giving them money to sustain them as a business.
I like big box stores, but that doesn't mean I want to live next to one. I love the New York Times Sunday cross word puzzle, but that doesn't mean I want to read the litter surrounding it. There is entertainment in the reading of some "stories" if one imagines the abject seriousness the reporter utilized to manufacture the story line. There is also entertainment when one imagines the sage nodding of heads on a Sunday morning in response to significant others who are denting kitchen tables with a finger nail to point out just how significant a story is to their world. I am able to imagine such a conversation from some of my friends, "Really, how could those morons in (enter red state name) vote for a moose hunting faux woman from a state nobody cares about? She actually believes in that sanctity of life voodoo, all while wearing that bikini and shooting off her gun at some helpless person. This IS insane!"
An Obama presidency is the last hope of this vanishing form of life in America and they know it.
Of course, they'll just say, "F**k you middle America." How fit to print.
